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Here's a repository you can clone and get going right now to see how the system works. Nobody's shy about saying chef-workflow takes an initial effort to get started, but at least this way you know what you're getting into first.

• VirtualBox
• SQLite libraries and headers to build the sqlite3 gem
• Ruby 1.9.3 and a recent version of Bundler

• Each machine uses around 384MB of ram apiece, and in total 5 machines spawn, although not all at once nor do they all run at the same time. You will almost always have the chef server running, 3 machines are used for an integration test and 1 machine is used for a recipe test. Use a machine that can handle this accordingly. Alternatively, you can use EC2, but you'll need to configure things to do so. See the documentation.

• If you have real machines in the 10.10.10.0/24 subnet you will run into problems accessing them while using this system. You can override this network specification in lib/chef-workflow-config.rb or with the environment variable TEST_CHEF_SUBNET. See the wiki or the configuration comments for more information.

• Clone this repository, or fork it and clone your fork.
• Run bundle in the repository root.
• From here you should be able to do a full test run: bundle exec rake test:full, which builds a chef server, populates it, and runs some tests against machines that are created.
• Beyond that, you should consult the documentation.